An uninvited guest on the White House lawn
- 20 Apr 06, 06:55 PM
I have just done a telephone interview with the lady who was evicted from the White House after heckling Hu Jin Tao, president of the People's Republic of China....
She is a journalist with the Epoch Times and tells me she has a regular press pass to the White House. She heckled Hu during his speech, saying that the American people would not like him if they could see what was happening to Falun Gong members inside the PRC. I asked her if she would come on the programme but she said it would be difficult as she was speaking to me from custody. I asked her what the secret service had said to her as they led her away: "What were you saying?" seemed to be their first question.
We've full coverage of news coming out of the Hu-Bush meeting (at a full 30 minutes, I would expect not a lot) - but we have some big beasts of the diplomatic jungle at the ready to talk about whether the USA has got its head round the challenge of China's "peaceful emergence" as a world superpower.
Anyway it is more than you will get if you are watching TV in China. Newsnight has ascertained that not a whiff of today's protest has been seen on there.
Tune in tonight at 10.30pm GMT on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ2
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